Improvement in caps for boots and shoes



B. F'JSAGE.

Detachable Cap for Boots and Shoes.

N0. 122,969. n v Patentedlan.23,1872.

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UNITED STATES BENJAMIN F. SAGE, OF BEVERLY, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAPS FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,969, dated January 23, 1872.

Specification describing a certain Improved Detachable Gap for Boots and shoes invented by BENJAMIN F. SAGE, of Beverly, in the county of Burlington and State of New Jersey.

Figure 1' represents a perspective View of my improved detachable cap for boots and shoes. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts.

This invention relates to a new toe-protector or cap to be applied to the worn ends of boots or shoes. The invention consists in the use of a flexible detachable cap or toe-piece, which can be prepared as an article of manufacture and supplied to the marketto be supplied to the wearers of boots and shoes, who can easily apply the caps themselves.

The cap or toe-piece A is made of leather, rubber, or equivalent fabric, and has backwardly-projecting side pieces a a, as shown. The side pieces have eyes or hooks at their The boot or shoe to be supplied with such a cap or toe-piece is provided with a screw or eye-bolt in the sole on both sides, so that the eye or hook at the end a of the cap may be secured thereto; or else the side pieces a have hooks that may be forced into the sole or between sole and upper to hold in the leather stitching. To insure greater strength the wire or metal, of which such hooks or eyes I) b are formed, may be extended along the under side of the cap.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent As an article of manufacture, the cap A formed of flexible material and constructed with side pieces, as shown and described, whereby it is adapted to be attached to the toes of boots and shoes, as specified.

BENJAMIN F. SAGE.

Witnesses:

HENRY B. HOLBROOK, CHARLES TROXELL. 

